Test Automation Architect - BFSI

Objectives

- Define and drive the vision of an ecosystem that supports DevOps principles continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous deployment, and continuous monitoring.

- Be technically savvy evangelists and establish themselves as trusted advisors that understand broader IT enterprise architecture.

- Develop and deliver Test/QA automation roadmap to drive the transformation of client quality and testing organization.

- Lead, mentor and provide Technical/Solutioning leadership to Automation Engineers with best practices.

- Optimize the test architecture and full lifecycle automation approach from unit test through system verification, in collaboration with the Automation Factory.

Responsibilities :

- Responsible for developing automation strategy for client-specific testing requirements, architecting appropriate automation frameworks and applying automated tools to support application testing.

- Provide End to end solution management (planning, design, development, risk management, resource and client management)

- Assess client environment at the enterprise level and provide cross-platform, cross tooling automation solutions that span across delivery models(waterfall/agile/DevOps).

- Ensure alignment between the integration partners and vendors and help set test architecture priorities Confidential client

- Ability to consult multiple projects / involve in presales and guide/mentor the automation team

- Ability to identify technical needs for the team and work with learning and development team for their career growth and enables them to become full-stack testers.

- Responsible for evaluation of new tools/technologies as and when needed to evolve new solutions / frameworks.

Prerequisite/Experience :

- 12 plus years of Experience in Technology / Automation Development Projects with minimum 5+ years working as Test Automation Architect (or similar)

- Proven experience in designing and implementing Automation Testing frameworks like TestNG, CARINA, Karate, Robot framework and methodology to support agile product development / IT development program experience.

- Demonstrated experience in defining and implementing test automation solutions leveraging one or more of the following: Selenium, Appium, Katalon, UI Path, Cucumber, and experience in API Testing tools like RestAssured, SOAPUI, Postman, PACT, Jmeter

- Advanced experience in one or more languages (more than 5+ yrs): Java, Python, Ruby

- Prior Experience in Dev Ops, Automated Deployments, Jenkins Pipelines, Containerization, Cloud Technologies, Dockers, Kubernetes, Database, etc

- Hands-on experience specifying, establishing, and managing test environments and test data for functional automation projects

- Understanding of HTTP protocol, XML, RESTful data structures and JSON format/ CSS

- Hands-on experience on Shell Scripting, Unix, Linux commands